Brenda Ueland was a well-known lawyer, feminist activist, writer, and journalist.If You Want to Write is her most famous work. It is a classic study of the essence of literary creativity and its techniques.When formulating a philosophy on creativity, Brenda wrote: "Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money."